Browsing Arts (Faculty of) by Title
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A Stimulus-Response Account of Stroop and Reverse Stroop Effects
(University of Waterloo, 2006)This thesis concerns selective attention in the context of the Stroop task (identify the colour) and Reverse Stroop task (identify the word). When a person is asked to select and identify one dimension of a bidimensional ... -
Storage Matters: Managing Grain, Securing Finance, and Building Markets
(University of Waterloo, 2016-06-15)This dissertation analyzes the nexus of agriculture and finance, specifically the mediating role of grain storage. How grain markets are organized and governed is foundational to food security. Hundreds of millions of ... -
Stories in Play: Narrative Formation in Sports and Esports
(University of Waterloo, 2021-11-11)Sports depend on narrative to function as media content, yet sports are difficult to narrativize because they are unpredictable. This project proposes a model for analyzing the narrative formation in sports broadcasts by ... -
A Strange Loop: An Exhibition of Painting
(University of Waterloo, 2011-05-17)“A Strange Loop” explores abstraction through a series of paintings that begin from a single point and evolve infinitely to create a self-contained, self-referential, and yet endlessly self-generating world. The series was ... -
“Strictly Non-Committal”: Commonwealth Economic Cooperation and the Great Depression
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-31)This thesis explores the effects of the Great Depression on the nascent British Commonwealth, with particular emphasis on whether economic crisis fostered cooperation or division among member states. In doing so, this ... -
Stringent, open and hybrid state treatment of foreign investment: three eras of the oil industry in Venezuela and Ecuador
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-28)This thesis explains the development of three distinctive forms of engagement between the Venezuelan and Ecuadorian states and foreign investment since the 1970s until 2014 in their oil sectors. State treatment of foreign ... -
The Stroop Effect: Why Proportion Congruent has Nothing to do with Congruency and Everything to do with Contingency
(University of Waterloo, 2007-07-17)Participants are slower to identify the print colour of incongruent colour words (e.g., the word ORANGE printed in green) than of congruent colour words (e.g., ORANGE printed in orange). The difference in time between these ... -
Stuck Watching the Skies: What Alien Invasion Films can tell us about Challenges to Hegemonic Authority
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-27)This project analyzes two sets of alien invasion films to understand lay opinions on hegemonic authority. It defines hegemonic authority along two major lines: neo-Gramscian hegemony and hegemonic stability theory. The ... -
Student Satisfaction Surveys and Nonresponse: Ignorable Survey, Ignorable Nonresponse
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-13)With an increasing reliance on satisfaction exit surveys to measure how university alumni qualify their experiences during their degree program, it is uncertain whether satisfaction is sufficiently salient, for some alumni, ... -
A Study in Paleo-Oncology: On the Identification of Neoplastic Disease in Archaeological Bone
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-24)Humans have experienced neoplastic disease since antiquity as evidenced by its frequent mentions in numerous ancient medical texts from diverse cultures. However, the skeletal record does not always corroborate this fact, ... -
A Study of Middle Power Diplomacy : as a Strategy of Leadership and Influence
(University of Waterloo, 2009-10-08)The main goal of this research is to clarify the concept of “middle power” and to employ the idea to understand the diplomatic strategies that allow so called secondary powers, which are countries without substantial ... -
A Study of the Discursive Aspect of Scientific Theorizing and Modeling
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-26)My dissertation contributes to the study of scientific theories and models by using a speech-act-theoretic framework to investigate the discursive aspect of theorizing and modeling practices. In the philosophical study of ... -
A study of the Repeated Actions Diary in patients suffering from obsessive compulsive disorder
(Wiley, 2019-12-27)The structured Repeated Action Diary (RAD) collects in vivo data on compulsions and their various characteristics. Certain compulsions (i.e., those ending because the patient feels certain that it is safe to stop) are then ... -
Studying Journal Articles under Time Pressure
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-26)The purpose of this dissertation is to understand how students distribute their attention while reading academic journal articles under time pressure. Given that most of the reading done in university is commonly ... -
Subjectivity in Performance Evaluation and Group Identity as Antecedents of Employee Overwork
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-18)Employees often overwork by working longer than contractual or statutory standard working time for no immediate additional monetary gain. Despite the prevalence of overwork in firms, little is understood about why employees ... -
Subtle Effects of Sleepiness on Electrocortical Indices of Attentional Resources and Performance Monitoring
(University of Waterloo, 2007-02-19)In this dissertation, the effect of mild sleep deprivation on attentional allocation and performance monitoring was investigated using a variety of event-related potential (ERP) paradigms with ecologically realistic periods ... -
Supporting Palliative Care in a Post-Carter World
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-15)Traditionally, most Palliative Care physicians have adhered to the World Health Organization’s definition of Palliative Care, according to which it “intends neither to hasten nor postpone death.” The 2016 legalization of ... -
Supporting uncertain policy decisions for global catastrophic risks
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-14)The three articles in this dissertation explore the contested, multi-dimensional concept of uncertainty and how experts and decision makers collectively grapple with it at governance organizations tasked with addressing ... -
Surmounting Trade Barriers: American Protectionism and the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-02)This thesis examines US protectionism in the 1980s from Canadian and American perspectives, and its role in Canada’s pursuit of the historic 1988 Canada-US Free Trade Agreement. It analyzes the perceived “threat” of ... -
Surveilling Queerness and Queering Surveillance: The Techno-Social Making of Queer Identity in the US and Canada, 1939-Present.
(University of Waterloo, 2023-03-22)This dissertation positions itself at the intersection of two disparate areas of study: Queer theory and surveillance studies. It aims to tease out the ways that technologies of surveillance and Queer lifeways evolved ...